Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The new London directory con-
tains the names of LBS Smiths.
The leading dentist in st. Peters
burg is an American, who has all the
pulling and filling he can attend to.
A man in Brussels has been ar
rested for cutting and slashinc
women's coats and wraps in the streets
'.for fun
The walls of Antioch, alternately
besieged and defended by the Crusa-
ders, are being demolished for building
materials.
The piano cases made of paper by
the Germans are creamy-white, and
are said to improve the tone in
quality. though diminishing its volume.
"A Berlin bareback rider has
ecllpsed ali circus performers by Jump
ing from one horse to another rs they
go III opposite directions at full speed.
The Russian Government has de-
cided to prohibit the importation of
patent medicines; the published list of
prohibited articles contains eight hum
dred items.
Birds of prey fly so swiftly and for
such Il length of time that falcon,
once lost in the forest of Fontainebleau,
in the center of France. was found the
following day at Malta, more than a
thousand miles distant
In Algeria the bride ALWAYS rides to
the wedding on mule led by the bride
groom The wedding occurs at his
home, and on reaching the door he lifts
the girl from the mule and carries her
inside, the assembled damsels and
youths meantime pelting him and
switching him with olive branches.
Sir Andrew Clarke, the celebrated
English physician. declares that one
half the population of London, is per-
manently i'll. He defines health as
''that state in which the body is not
consciously present to us; the state in
which work is easy and duty not over
great trial; the state in which it is a
JOY 10 see, to think. to feel and to be. :"
The greatest part of the cultivated
area of China is devoted to the pro-
duction of food. There are no fiocks
or herds, and the areas devoted to cot
ton and mulberry are very small COM
pared to the extent of the empire. OF
the 50.OO0.O 900 of population. three
tifths live on rice and the rest on small
millet and wheat.
1t is we'll known that the popula-
ton of London is migratory one, but
probably few persons were prepared
for the fact which has been brought to
light by the compilers of Kelly's Post
Office Directory, that the removals in
London amount to one in ten annually.
Thus the entire population of London
changes houses every ten years.
don Truth.
The great Glasgow cathedral was
lighted throughout with gas for the
first time, and the effect is said to have
been exceedingly fine, rs the brilliant
light fully reveals all the interior beau
ties of the building, which have hither-
to been concealed; while from the out
side nothing can be finer than the
view of the long line of stained-glass
windows
"A drainage scheme of considerable
magnitude is being carried out i'll Rus
STA. The object is the reclamation of the
Pinsk marshes, situated on the Russo
Polish frontier, and the work has been
in operation since 1873. The total
area of the district is $4,000, 900 acres,
and of this some 100000 acres have
been reclaimed up to the present time.
Over 1000 miles of bitches and canals
have been constructed in the course of
the work. The operations have been
carried out under the government.